"Judge Doom. Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye) is the owner of Acme Products and Toontown. He is known around Hollywood as ""the gag king"" for the prank items he makes his living selling. Among his top sellers are Disappearing/Reappearing Ink and a hand buzzer. In a blackmail scheme by R.K. Maroon, he has an ""affair"" with Toon Jessica Rabbit which Eddie Valiant (who briefly meets Acme) photographs. Acme is murdered later that night by Judge Doom, who drops a safe on his head and frames Jessica's husband, Roger. Lt. Santino (Richard LeParmentier) is a lieutenant with the LAPD, and friend of"
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film is based on Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"". The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Combining live-action and animation, the film is set in Hollywood during the late 1940s, where cartoon characters and people co-exist. The story follows Eddie Valiant, a private detective who must exonerate ""Toon"" (i.e. cartoon character) Roger Rabbit,"
"1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"", and later served as the interior of the British Museum in ""The Mummy Returns"". Significant communities from Australia and New Zealand exist in Shepherd's Bush. Street names in the area suggest links to South Africa but these were inspired by places and personalities from the Boer War or by their proximity to the former position of the South Africa Pavilion in the White City exhibition area. There is a Polish community, with a community centre in nearby Hammersmith. There are also Somali, West Indian, Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian, Irish, Algerian, Moroccan and Afghan communities that"
"was also made into a 1952 animated short by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson and narrated by Sterling Holloway. It has also been released as an audio book. The apartments and skyscrapers from the Disney adaptation of ""The Little House"" make a cameo appearance in ""Toontown"" in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". The story centers on a house built at the top of a small hill, far out in the country, who is delighted when a newlywed couple choose her for a home. However, the house feels lonely at night and wonders what it might be like to have other"
"the Los Angeles area in the film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". He is voiced in all appearances by Charles Fleischer. In the original story, ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"", a different character named Bennie is an insect who deals in second-hand items at the junkyard. The character was expanded for the movie, as an anthropomorphized colorful yellow Volkswagen Beetle-style taxi cab. The Toon Patrol is a group of five anthropomorphic animated tailless weasels who serve as henchmen to Judge Doom in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". They serve as the secondary antagonists of the film. In the film, the Toon Patrol comprises"
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989 video game) Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an action-adventure video game created for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Rare and published by LJN in 1989. The single-player game is loosely based on the film of the same name and had combined elements of graphic adventure computer games with some more traditional action adventure gameplay. A different version of the game was also released for various computer systems in 1988. The game takes place in Los Angeles in 1947. The player controls private detective Eddie Valiant, who is always closely followed by Roger Rabbit. The game"
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988 video game) Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a video game based on the film of the same name for MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II, and Commodore 64. It was released by Buena Vista Software in 1988. The player controls Roger Rabbit through four levels, each with its own specific task to complete. In the first level, the player must drive Benny the Cab to reach the Ink and Paint Club ahead of the Toon Patrol, jumping and swerving to avoid cars and puddles of Dip in the road. The second level is set within"
"Pictures' 1988 release ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". Mickey's Toontown is based on a 1930s cartoon aesthetic and is home to Disney's most popular cartoon characters. Toontown features two main attractions: Gadget's Go Coaster and Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin. The ""city"" is also home to cartoon character's houses such as the house of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Goofy, as well as Donald Duck's boat. The gauge Jolly Trolley can also be found in this area, though it closed as an attraction in 2003 and is now present only for display purposes. During the 1955 inauguration Walt Disney dedicated Tomorrowland"
"buildings (1898), now redeveloped as a bus station, were used as the location for the ‘Acme Factory’ in the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". Shepherd's Bush is home to Queens Park Rangers football club, who play their home games in Loftus Road. Olympic gold medal winner Linford Christie also grew up in Shepherd's Bush and lived in Loftus Road as a child. A stadium on nearby Wormwood Scrubs is named the Linford Christie Stadium in his honour. Some of the football games in the 1908 Olympics were hosted in Shepherd's Bush. Shepherds Bush F.C. were the local side till"
"Mickey's Toontown Mickey's Toontown is a ""themed land"" at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, two theme parks operated by The Walt Disney Company. At Tokyo Disneyland, this land is named Toontown. A similar land existed at the Magic Kingdom until 2011 and was named Mickey's Toontown Fair. The attraction is a small-scale recreation of the Mickey Mouse universe where visitors can meet the characters and visit their homes which are constructed in a cartoonish style. It was inspired by ""Toontown"" from the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" in which cartoon characters live apart from humans. <nowiki> </nowiki>Roger Rabbit was recognized"
"Lane. Also, the dockland scenes in the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Dalek Invasion of Earth"" were enacted there. A 1987 edition of the ""South Bank Show"" about the London Underground was introduced by Melvyn Bragg, who appeared out of the fog carrying a torch on the platform at Wood Lane station. In the 1988 animation movie ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" directed by Robert Zemeckis, the scenes for the Acme factory were filmed in the former power house (later known as the Dimco Building) in the Wood Lane Depot (now part of the Westfield Shopping Centre). It is a listed building"
"Roger Rabbit short films The ""Roger Rabbit"" shorts are a series of animated short films produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1989 to 1993. The anthology features Roger Rabbit, the animated protagonist from ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", being enlisted the task of caring for Baby Herman while his mother is absent, resulting in a plot defined by slapstick humor and visual gags. Each short concludes with a sequence involving live action and animation, where the characters interact with live action human beings, akin to the 1988 film. These were filmed from 1988 to 1993. Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Lou"
"the lawsuit. Wolf won the decision in July 2005, receiving between $180,000 and $400,000 in damages. Gary K. Wolf Gary K. Wolf (born January 24, 1941) is an American author. He is best known as the author of ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"" (1981), which was adapted into the hit feature-length film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988). Wolf was born on January 24, 1941. He grew up in Earlville, Illinois, the son of Ed and Hattie Wolf. His father owned the town’s pool hall and later had an upholstering business, while his mother worked in the school cafeteria. As an only"
"Walt Disney Pictures banner. ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" opened in the United States on June 22, 1988, grossing $11,226,239 in 1,045 theaters during its opening weekend, ranking first place in the domestic box office. The film went on to gross $156,452,370 in North America and $173,351,588 internationally, coming to a worldwide total of $329,803,958. At the time of release, ""Roger Rabbit"" was the 20th-highest-grossing film of all time. The film was also the second-highest-grossing film of 1988, behind only ""Rain Man"". Zemeckis has revealed a three-dimensional reissue could be possible. ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" was first released on VHS on"
"Returns"". Dimco Buildings The Dimco Buildings are a historic structure in White City, London, just north of Shepherd's Bush. Originally built in 1898, they were constructed as a shed for the Central line London Underground power station. Today the Dimco Buildings house White City bus station, located next to the Westfield London shopping centre, one of the largest in Europe. The Dimco Buildings are Grade II listed. The Dimco buildings were used as a filming location for the Acme Factory in the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"", and later served as the interior of the British Museum in ""The"
"and ""Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"" (1988). In the 1988 live-action/animated comedy, ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", Bugs appeared as one of the inhabitants of Toontown. However, since the film was being produced by Disney, Warner Bros. would only allow the use of their biggest star if he got an equal amount of screen time as Disney's biggest star, Mickey Mouse. Because of this, both characters are always together in frame when onscreen. ""Roger Rabbit"" was also one of the final productions in which Mel Blanc voiced Bugs (as well as the other ""Looney Tunes"" characters) before his death in 1989. Bugs later"
"disappears before he can ask him if he still has a chance to change his ways. Willie the Giant makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" on a poster in a movie theater in Toontown. Willie is also a minor recurring character in the ""Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"" children's series. Here, he is friends with Mickey. He still lives in the sky, only this time in a giant farm house. Ortensia is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's wife. She appeared in the Oswald shorts starting with The Banker's Daughter, replacing Oswald's former love interest, a much more"
"Gary K. Wolf Gary K. Wolf (born January 24, 1941) is an American author. He is best known as the author of ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"" (1981), which was adapted into the hit feature-length film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988). Wolf was born on January 24, 1941. He grew up in Earlville, Illinois, the son of Ed and Hattie Wolf. His father owned the town’s pool hall and later had an upholstering business, while his mother worked in the school cafeteria. As an only child, Wolf would occupy himself by reading comic books and science fiction stories. Wolf graduated from"
"Philpott left the school to go on the road with NoFit, at first working as part of the big top tent crew, and he found that erecting and disassembling the tent drew crowds by itself. He eventually became a stage manager and also performed with the circus, traveling with them for several summer tours throughout the United Kingdom until the mid-1990s. Toby Philpott made a brief return to the movies to participate in the 1988 film, ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", a comedy that combined live-action film with animation. David Barclay was tasked with putting together a team of puppeteers to"
"and finally Roger's photographer, Carol. Valiant then goes to the Rabbit's house and finds Roger's dead corpse lying over the banister, soaking in a pool of his own blood. Toon policeman Captain Cleaver and a human commissioner then show up at the house. Valiant then encounters Roger's dopple, and begs the toon-hating detective to prove his innocence and clear his name. In the 1988 Disney/Amblin Entertainment film, he is re-envisioned as a character in 1940s animated cartoons and a resident of the fictional Los Angeles enclave, Toontown. He is framed for the murder of Acme Corporation C.E.O. Marvin Acme and"
"but it was overshadowed by Don Bluth's ""An American Tail"", another film featuring mice characters that competed directly with ""Mouse Detective"" in theaters. In 1988, the studio collaborated with Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, producing ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", a comedic detective caper that mixed live action and animation while paying homage to the Golden Age of Cartoons. Disney characters appeared with characters from Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal Pictures and other rival studios for the first time in animation history. The film was a huge box-office success, winning four Academy Awards, reviving interest in animation made for theaters, and popularizing"
"Judge Doom Judge Doom is the main antagonist in the 1988 motion picture ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", portrayed by Christopher Lloyd. He is depicted as a much feared, cruel and malicious judge of Toontown who is responsible for the framing of the titular character and the killing of Eddie Valiant's brother within the film. Judge Doom is an original character from the script of the film created by screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. Many actors were considered for the role of the character such as Tim Curry and Christopher Lee. The reviews of Christopher Lloyd's role as Judge"
"open release. Unlike a lot of other first and second generation MMOs at the time, ""Toontown"" was unique from the rest because it specifically focused on reaching audiences of children and families, while most MMOs of the generation appealed to older players. Because of this, it is often entitled the first MMO for families. With ""Toontown""'s unique playing style, players took on the roles of classic cartoon characters, which were heavily based off the world in the 1988 Warner Brothers picture, ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". The objective of the game was simple. One had to save the city of Toontown"
"who is accused of murdering a wealthy businessman. Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights for ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit""s story in 1981. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg, and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film, and Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer"
"giant talking rabbit, visible only to one person. The first episode of 1975 television series ""The Invisible Man"" featured a scene with an invisible rabbit (wearing a visible collar) called ""Harvey"", in a cage in a laboratory. A scene in the film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" has a barfly confessing, ""I seen the rabbit"" (meaning Roger, who is being sought as a murder suspect). He puts his arm around an invisible presence and says, ""Say hello – Harvey!"" The movie takes place in 1947, while the play released in 1944. In the 1989 film ""Field of Dreams,"" farmer Ray Kinsella"
"theaters. In the 1990s animated series ""Tiny Toon Adventures"", Porky appears as the mentor of Hamton J. Pig. Porky also made cameo appearances on ""Animaniacs"" and ""Histeria!"". Porky has a cameo at the end of the Disney/Amblin film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988), where, paired with Disney's Tinkerbell, has the duty of closing the movie with his famous line ""Th-Th-Th-That's All Folks!"". It was the last time that Mel Blanc voiced Porky. Porky is the star of the Super NES video game ""Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday"" (1995). He also made appearances in the games """", """", """", """", ""Bugs Bunny"
"Treasure Island (1988 film) Treasure Island (, ""Ostrov sokrovishch"") is a 1988 Soviet animated film in two parts based on the novel with the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. While the film combines traditional animation and live action, it does it in a very different way than the American film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (which was also filmed in 1988), by predominantly incorporating live action sequences as episodes into the movie, as opposed to having a relatively seamless filmed picture with a number of hand-drawn characters added into it. The first part of the film was released in 1986"
"Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Who Censored Roger Rabbit? is a mystery novel written by Gary K. Wolf in 1981. It was later adapted by Disney and Amblin Entertainment into the critically acclaimed 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". Eddie Valiant is a hardboiled private eye, and Roger Rabbit is a second banana comic strip character. The rabbit hires Valiant to find out why his employers, the DeGreasy Brothers (Rocco and Dominic) who are owners of a cartoon syndicate, have reneged on a promise to give Roger his own strip and potentially sell his contract to a mystery buyer. Evidence shows"
"available in the final level, providing the player with hints on how to complete the game. ""Compute!"" stated that ""Roger Rabbit"" was ""as entertaining as it is exciting"" with good graphics, sound, and ""several hours of pleasurable playing"". Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988 video game) Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a video game based on the film of the same name for MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II, and Commodore 64. It was released by Buena Vista Software in 1988. The player controls Roger Rabbit through four levels, each with its own specific task to complete. In the first level,"
"Framed Roger Rabbit"" (as depicted by Christopher Lloyd) he is the much-feared Judge of Toontown. Despite presiding over a city of Toons, Doom is totally without mirth and passes capital punishment on Toons who break the law, placing them in a chemical vat of turpentine, acetone and benzene which he dubs ""The Dip"". The Judge employs Toon henchmen (the ""Toon Patrol"") to assist him in hunting down Roger Rabbit for the murder of Marvin Acme. Doom wears a black ensemble which includes a caped overcoat (which is always being blown by a gust of wind), a fedora, gloves, and rimless"
"comedians Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, circus performer Emmett Kelly, and football star Norm van Brocklin. Bobby Doerr, a Hall of Fame baseball player, married a teacher from Illahe, and made his home along the Rogue. From 1940 to 1990, actress and dancer Ginger Rogers owned the Rogue River Ranch, operated for many years as a dairy farm, near Eagle Point. The historic Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater in Medford was named after her. Actress Kim Novak and her veterinarian husband bought a home and of land in 1997 near the Rogue River in Sams Valley, where they raise horses and"
"scenes from ""Batman Begins"" (2005) were shot at Coalhouse Fort in East Tilbury. Some filming also took place for the film ""Essex Boys"" in and around the Bata estate at East Tilbury. The State Cinema where Eddie met Roger in the classic ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" can be found in Grays. There are a number of examples of Art Deco architecture in Thurrock. The baggage hall at Tilbury was opened in 1930. It has an art deco interior, designed by Sir Edwin Cooper and is a grade II listed building. The State cinema is also a listed building and dates"
"director Richard Williams to work on his film """". There he met and worked with animation luminaries like Eric Goldberg, Art Babbitt and John Canemaker. After several years doing commercial animation work in New York and Toronto, Sito relocated to Los Angeles and worked on TV projects like ""Super Friends"" for Hanna-Barbera (1978), ""He-Man and the Masters of the Universe"" and ""Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids"" (1983–1985). Tom Sito was summoned by his old mentor Richard Williams once more in 1987 to animate on Disney/Amblin's Academy Award-winning hit film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". Returning to Los Angeles in 1988,"